Maumee-Bowling Green Elks #1850 Donate for Veterans and Seniors in Need

Exalted Ruler Larry "Bubba" Stadler and Mike Pegorsh, members of Maumee-Bowling Green Elks Lodge #1850, delivered 32 Veterans Bags to Barry's Landing, a residential Veterans home in Maumee, Ohio. 

The Veterans Bag Challenge was given to all those in attendance on Veteran's Night, a dinner the Elks hosted the second weekend of November.  Members and visitors filled the bags over the last month to be donated and delivered.  Sherry Jaquay, Charity Coordinator at Maumee BG-Lodge gave the initial challenge, and then coordinated the donations along with the help of fellow committee members Glen and Yvonne Lammon and Sandy Stanish.  (Barry's Landing was also the recipient of the $3,500 Beacons Grant from ENF earlier this year).

In addition to the Veterans Bags, funds and other donated items which included a Red, White, and Blue hand-knitted afghan blanket, made for Christmas Bags for five Senior Citizen families in Lucas County that the Lodge adopted this Christmas season.